Fourteen withdrawn second grade children and 22 withdrawn third graders referred by their teachers as underachievers in math, participated in a study comparing the effects on math performance of an Experimental treatment employing anger-arousal and assertive-training with an Attention-placebo Control treatment emphasizing encouragement and feedback. Blood pressure readings were taken to determine the validity of the Experimental treatment in producing anger. Subjects were not tutored. Treatment sessions lasted for 15-minutes each day for six weeks. Both second and third grade Experimental Subjects were able to increase their performance in math by one to two letter grades over baseline, and maintain these gains during a three week follow-up period. Control subjects' performances did not improve. Diastolic blood pressure readings reliably differentiated between Experimental and Control Subjects, and supported the efficacy of the Experiment treatment in reliably producing anger. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-05, Section: B, page: 1923. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1980.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74196 |
| Contributors | LOOS, FERN MARIE., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 92 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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